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SCRANTON — A South Scranton man was sentenced Thursday to 18 to 36 months in jail and 48 years of probation for his guilty plea to dozens of counts of

SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Officials announced six people, including two from Pennsylvania, bought and sold human remains stolen from Harvard Medical School and an Arkansas mortuary.

SCRANTON — Two drivers avoided serious injury when a car collided with a County of Lackawanna Transit System minibus Wednesday afternoon in downtown Scranton.

SCRANTON — City leaders envision one new pool and a splash pad at Nay Aug Park to replace the two former pools there.

SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — The hazy, smokey air has been affecting more than just the weather. It is making a big impact on local restaurants, and not in a positive way.

A former constable from Wilkes-Barre has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for the unlawful possession of an unregistered firearm, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday.

SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A lot of people are staying inside, but not everyone has that luxury, as some are forced to work outdoors.

Reflection chblt as joe mentioned here, we have seen quite a lot of each other. i gather our wives have started to take spin classes together, and we were talking earlier about our hometowns. joe is very rightly proud of scranton, and i was telling him a little bit about south hampton in england where im from. not everyone knows this but it was in a church in south hampton where in the days before he set sail for these shores that john winthrop first spoke about his dream of building a city on a...

Still pouring into the northeast. right now unhealthy air for 100 million people from wildfire smoke. and in fact, the worst air is from scranton to richmond, virginia. were looking at air quality readings right now, very unhealthy in philadelphia. harrisburg, washington, d.c., down into richmond and charlottesville. and the problem now is we are not seeing the smoke really dissipate. we thought maybe wed get out of it by saturday. but you can see by saturday, from buffalo, bingham, salisbury, w...

The downtown Scranton Art Haus theater should reopen in weeks amid a major exterior renovation that will light up the corner of Lackawanna and Penn avenues.